Clothespin holder



Patented Dec. 3, 1929 UNITED srArEs OTTO NUSSER, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY GLOTHESPIN HOLDER Application filed May 28,

This invention relates to improvements in special receptacles, particularly to a clothes pin holder, and it is the principal object of my invention to provide a holder of this character permitting the ready removal of clothes pins theretrom for hanging wash from a clothes line and the placing of clothes pins into the same upon removal of the wash, from the line.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a clothes pin holder equipped with a suitable hanger for suspending the holder from a suitable support such as for instance a clothes line in order to have it handy at all times.

A further object of my invention is the proision of a clothes pin holder of simple and therefore inexpensive construction, yet durable and efiicient in its operation.

A still further object of my invention is the provision of a clothes pin holder equipped with suitable ears for allowing the securing of the same at a selected place and of compact construction protecting the clothes pins against the influence of the weather and loss.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will become more fully known as the description thereof proceeds, and will then be specifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is a front elevation of my clothes pin holder constructed according to my invention,

open.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof, partly in section.

In the drawing, in which similar iigures refer to similar parts, 10 designates an inner drum having a top 11 and bottom 12 equipped with outer projecting flanges 13, 14, respectively provided with perforated ears 15, 16.

About this inner drum, and between the upper and lower projecting flanges thereof an outer sleeve 17 is rotatably guided, equipped with a handle 18, and bearing a suitable inscription to indicate the direction of rotation of the outer sleeve in order to bring the opening 19 in the mantle of the inner drum into alignment with the opening 20 in the outer 1929. Serial No. 366,707.

sleeve, in order to allow the placing of clothes pins into said drum or the removal of said pins therefrom.

The drum may be suspended from a clothes line or other suitable support by means of a book 21 pivoted at its other end, as at 22, to

the cover or top 11.

It will be clear that upon suspension of the device from a support such as a clothes line, etc, by hook 21, the shank 23 of which is noro mally embedded in a depression of the cover or top, the outer sleeve 17 is turned by means of its handle about the inner drum in the direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 1, so that the openings 19 and 20 will come into 5 alignment and will allow the removal of clothes pins from the drum or as the case may be, the placing of such pins into the drum.

It will be understood that I have described and shown as one example of the many possihle Ways to practically construct my device, the preferred form thereof, and that I may make such changes in the general arrangement thereof and in the construction of its inor details, as come within the scope of the appended claims without departure from my invention and the principles involved.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Clothes pin holder comprising an inner drum, atop and bottom formed therewith, projecting flanges on said top and bottom, an outer sleeve movably surrounding said drum and guided between the flanges of its bottoni and top, a handle on said sleeve for rotating the same about said drum, said drum and sleeve having openings in their side walls adapted to be brought into alignment upon the proper rotation of said sleeve, and a means for suspending said drum from a support.

2 Clothes-pin holder comprising an inner drum and an outer sleeve rotatably held on said drum, means tor guiding said sleeve during its rotation, at top for said drum having a depression therein, a hook pivotally attached at one end to said top and embedded with its body in the depression, thereby allowing a suspension of said drum upon turning the hook about its pivot, a handle on said sleeve,

said drum and sleeve having openings therein adapted to be brought into alignment upon the proper rotation of said sleeve for giving access to the interior of said drum.

Si ned at Newark, in the county of Essex 7 and tate of New Jersey May, A. D. 1929.

OTTO NUSSER. 

